Weather pals, saying the conditions this past week were anything short of outstanding is like saying beef jerky is not delicious — sure, you can say it, but it is well beyond your powers to add or detract from its inherent untruth.
Unfortunately, just in time for April, that warm weather is going to be banished to the Island of Misfit Toys, where it can keep yesterday's lost hour company.
Actually, I've always thought the time change provides a creative opportunity for standing up a date: just tell the target of your diss, "Sure, I'll go out with you! I'll meet you at 2:30 a.m. on the first Sunday in April!" Then, when that hour vanishes into a dispassionate bureaucratic abyss, he/she will be all like, "Nooooo, damn you and your time zones, Chester Alan Arthur! Truly this is the cruelest consequence of the late 19th century effort to standardize train schedules!!!1!1Oneoneone!"
But that's neither here nor there. I hope you gathered last week's fingerlickin' good weather while ye may, because those 11 herbs and spices shan't be savored hereabouts for another week or so (Robert Herrick and Harlan Sanders must be spinning in their graves, along with a litany of other public figures). Instead, expect much cooler conditions today, with a very good chance of rain beginning in the early afternoon, and even the chance of a stray thunderstorm around dusk.
Afterwards, brisk northwesterly winds will bring in much cooler air for Tuesday through Thursday, with lows around 30 and highs gradually warming from the lower 50s to around 60. Even so, my predicted temps are a little more optimistic than some other forecast sources, but I'm confident strong solar heating will support more warmth. Did you know when you use Weather.com, you're funding terrorism? On the other hand, I still use children's toothpaste (Crest SparkleFun, to be precise). Who do you trust? Keep in mind when you answer that I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
In any case, in the long run the weather should treat us right over the next few weeks, despite April's street rep as the cruelest month on the block. Or, to quote T.S. Eliot's short-lived 1946 ad campaign for Dunkin' Donuts, "The Cruellerest Month!"
Ryan Truchelut's column appears Monday's and Friday's.
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